[1958] in athena10
Re: bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Stumbaugh)
Mon Mar 30 12:19:21 2009
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:18:13 -0400
From: Tim Stumbaugh <stum@MIT.EDU>
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To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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I'm not noticing any other connectivity issue when it happens. I don't usually use linerva for
extended periods on other machines, so I can't speak to how it behaves on other machines. I'll try a
longer-lasting session, and see how it behaves.
On 3/30/2009 06.43, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi Tim -
> Is there any correlation between what machine you login from and
> whether you have tickets? It sounds like you might be using a machine
> that authenticates using tickets but doesn't delegate them - see
> http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/#ticket-forwarding for our documentation
> on how to fix that.
>
> If you're not forwarding tickets, you can't get tokens when you login,
> which are the credentials that authenticate you to AFS. Without tokens,
> you can't read your dotfiles. Your dotfiles include the Athena standard
> dotfiles, which set your prompt to "athena%". The other prompt you're
> seeing is actually the tcsh default prompt.
>
> As for your session freezing, that sounds like you're losing your
> connection to Linerva. Since ssh happens over a single long-lasting
> connection (as opposed to protocols like HTTP which are effectively
> stateless), interruptions in your network connectivity, especially ones
> that result in your IP address changing, can result in symptoms like
> that. Do you notice any other brief interruption in your network
> connection when you get disconnected like this?
>
> - Evan
>
> Tim Stumbaugh wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am experiencing a strange bug while using linerva. When I log in,
>> sometimes, I don't have any tickets, so I can't get access to my files
>> without running renew. Also, my athena% prompt is sometimes
>> vinegar_pot (not sure if that's relevant).
>> The other issue that I run into, is that my session will occasionally
>> "freeze" where any keystrokes don't register, and my client will
>> eventually just disconnect.
>>
>> If it makes any difference, I'm not running a window session.
>>
>> Best-
--
-Tim
"Remind me that we'll always have each other/When everything else is gone"
